A MetroSafe supervisor says it happened in the 1000 block of East Jefferson, near Baxter Avenue and East Chestnut Street.

A call about the crash came in at 3:43 a.m.

LMPD spokesperson Dwight Mitchell says a driver was traveling west on East Jefferson, when the person lost control, a hit a utility pole and went through a fence and landed upside down.

Police say two people were inside the vehicle. One of the victims was a male, who was pronounced dead at the scene. There was also a female inside the vehicle, who was taken to University Hospital to be treated for non-life threatening injuries.